Yes, but friends of yours leave pamphlets in people's entries, to be picked up by nervous misses and hysteric housemaids, full of doctrines these people do not approve.
The two Annexes hurried out their pocket-handkerchiefs, and I almost expected a semi-hysteric cataclysm.
But she did not grow pale perceptibly; she had no involuntary or hysteric movements; she still listened to him and smiled naturally enough.
The hysteric stage which the wise old man had apprehended began to manifest itself by its usual signs, if anything can be called usual in a condition the natural order of which is disorder and anomaly.
Myrtle was no longer liable to those nervous seizures which any sudden impression was liable to produce when she was in her half-hysteric state of mind and body.
Tom and Miss Ophelia alone seemed to have any presence of mind; for Marie was in strong hysteric convulsions.
A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles.
Many were the remedies that were tried and the experiments that were suggested; and at length the violence of passion exhausted itself, and a faint sob or deep sigh succeeded the hysteric scream.
Your partiality makes you suppose me capable of a great deal more than I am equal to," answered her Ladyship, with a real hysteric sob.
He sat down heavily and stared at Calverley, who was still shaking with hysteric laughter; while I, now consumed with curiosity, walked over to the closet to discover the cause of their singular behaviour.
He still sat facing the bewildered lawyer, one moment sobbing convulsively, the next yelping with hysteric laughter.
For much as the hysteric stands in comparison to us ordinary men, so perhaps do we ordinary men stand in comparison with a not impossible ideal of faculty and of self-control.
Thus the hysteric is often unconscious of the anæsthesia, which is only discovered by the physician.
Now it is in the assimilation of these elementary sensations or affective states with the perception personnelle, as Janet terms it, that the advanced hysteric fails.
In the hysteric the incapacity to speak may be the single symptom.
The hysteric who squeezes the dynamometer like a weak child can exert great muscular force under the influence of emotion.
Yet this was the man that made grown women cry; she thought of old Mrs. Jackson fervently grasping the plodding ankles before her, and a hysteric desire to laugh, with the fear that he might see it on her face, overcame her.
The congregation, knowing her to be the niece of the hysteric woman, passed out without disturbing them.
Licelus knew a nun of Bresia, who, after an hysteric attack, continued in an inanimate state for ten days and nights.
Now, with all due deference to St. Theresa, this state was most probably a hysteric condition.
Schneider and Becker have ascertained its influence in hysteric and hypochondriac affections.
Warm and ungovernable passions will drive one female into all the horrid excesses of nymphomania, while the timid hypochondriac and hysteric woman will gradually sink into a morose or a malevolent despondency.
Dubois of Amiens endeavoured to prove the non-existence of pain after decapitation, by showing that convulsive movements, epileptic and hysteric attacks, were not accompanied by any painful sensations.
And then the hystericpassion overcame her, and she fell back in a frenzy of laughter, sobs, and screams, painful alike to see and hear.
She put her hand to her throat, as if choked by some hysteric symptom, but at once controlled herself and went on.
Much of what follows relates to the same nervous, hysteric or "putrid" fever, with or without relapses, that has been described for London.
Febricula or Little Fever, commonly called the Nervous or Hysteric Fever, the Fever on the Spirits, Vapours, Hypo, or Spleen.
A Treatise of the Hypochondriack andHysteric Diseases, 3rd ed.
The sick persons in these remittents were for the most part drowsy and stupid, especially during the paroxysm; the fevers were followed by lassitude, debility, languor of spirits and hysteric symptoms.
There was a hint of hysteric breakdown in the exclamation.
He had had such books put into his hands by acquaintances, some of whom were of the impressionable hysteric order, but many of whom were as analytically minded as himself.
However upon his advice I went under a course of bitters, and anti-hysteric pills, drank an English pint of claret wine every day, and rode eight or ten Scotch miles.
This while the queen sat with a stupefied look, crumpling the paper with one hand, as my prince embraced the other; then of a sudden she uttered several piercing shrieks, and burst into a great fit of hysteric tears and laughter.
Women fell down in convulsions; strong men were smitten suddenly to the earth; the preacher was interrupted by bursts of hysteric laughter or of hysteric sobbing.
The wild throes of hysteric enthusiasm passed into a passion for hymn-singing, and a new musical impulse was aroused in the people which gradually changed the face of public devotion throughout England.
In olden days the Delphian oracles were people who had the power voluntarily of throwing themselves into these hysteric states and their vague statements were taken to be heaven-inspired.
But Judge Pyncheon was not the man to let himself be startled from an easy-chair with haste ill-befitting either the dignity of his character or his broad personal basis, by the alarm of an hysteric woman.
The girl Glad sat clinging to her knees, her eyes wide and awed and with a sudden gush of hysteric tears rushing down her cheeks.
Her fantastic laugh ended for her with a little choking, vaguelyhysteric sound.
She ended by a great fit ofhysteric weeping that lasted half the night.
Meekins tried to smile as he proceeded to obey; but the effort was too much, and the features became fixed into one rigid expression, resembling the look of hysteric laughter.
No hysteric visions, no madman's dreams, no clever conjurer's tricks, have ever shed a tawdry glory on the monkhood of the Buddha.
Hysteric dreams, the childishness of the mysterious, the insanity of the miraculous, are no part of that.
Mrs. Germaine by degrees recovered herself; for a hysteric fit cannot last for ever.
Hysteric sobs and cries ended Mrs. Sedley's speech--it echoed through every room in the small house, whereof the other female inmates heard every word of the colloquy.
Her doubts and terrors reached their paroxysm; and the poor girl, who for many hours had been plunged into stupor, raved and ran hither and thither in hysteric insanity--a piteous sight.
